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domingo, 17 de marzo de 2013

For a while now we're finding lots of works of this mash-up genre such as Android Karenina or Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter, just to give a couple of examples, that we've reviewed in this blog. I haven't read a lot of this genre but Pride and prejudice, the graphic novel and Sherlock Holmes y los zombis de Camford (Sherlock Holmes and the Camford zombies), but I must recognize that all of them, even this last one, in a not very usual style, being honest, I liked them. Seeing that was written La isla del tesoro Z (Z Treasure island), obviously, I couldn't resist to read it as soon as possible, so I did. And I wasn't bad at all.

We must begin saying that it is a story told by Jim Hawkins himself in first person some years later than the official story was published by Stevenson, what makes it to have lots of references and personal comments, gloomy thoughts and memories, explained with a language... Let's say "retro". But, that's true, it's a really clean and light style, so, please, don't panic because of the way of writting. I must recognize that it's the first work of De-Bernardi that I've read and I really liked it. Nothing to envy to the previous writters.

The plot doesn't offer anything special, at least nothing we can't imagine just reading the title: La isla del tesoro Z (Z Treasure island). It's just a new version of the original from the XIXth century by Stevenson mixed with the well known zombie actor, something that, against what could seem, it's quite well introduced, playing with the idea of pub stories, remote American islands, bloody pirates... Making you doubt about who they really are. But the cover, that I must say makes me drool, lefts nothing to imagination in this aspect, so I have nothing more to say. My congratulations to the author.

Just left to say that it's a good and new revision of this classic of classics that, bridging the gap and with a little bit more of biting humour of some Jack Sparrow, could delight any fan of Pirates of the Caribbean.